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Undergraduate Student Poster Award

Award Info

Description

About the Award

The Undergraduate Student Poster Award recognizes poster presentations characterized by excellence in research, clarity in presentation, and personal knowledge demonstrated in a discussion with judges at the SPSP Annual Convention.

Two award winners will receive a $100 honorarium. In addition, the two award winners will also have their posters prominently displayed at the SPSP Annual Convention, showcasing their research to the SPSP community, be announced on SPSP social media accounts during the convention, and have their headshot and basic bio displayed on one of the TV monitors on a rotating basis throughout the convention. Two runners-up will receive a $50 honorarium.

Selection Process

In the first round of judging, posters will be peer reviewed for effective layout and visual presentation. The top 50% of submissions will advance to the second round, where peer reviewers will judge applicants’ award submission statements and posters. From this round, 10 submissions will be selected as finalists and be invited to present their posters during the first poster session of the SPSP Annual Convention. During this final round, finalists will be interviewed by several secret judges (typically faculty members). On the basis of the judges' scores, 2 winners and 2 runners-up will be selected.

Eligibility

To be eligible for an award, applicants must:

Be the first author on a poster accepted to SPSP 2019.

Be a student member of SPSP at the time of application for the award.

Be a full-time undergraduate student or recent graduate (not currently in graduate school) at the time of submission (Graduate student applications should be submitted here).

Be available to present their research at the first poster session as well as their originally designated session at the SPSP conference.

Present a poster that reflects the applicant's work, and not that of an advisor.

Work must NOT be in-press or already published.

Past winners of the Student Poster Award are NOT eligible.

Note: Past winners of the Outstanding Research Award or Undergraduate Registration Award are eligible for this award.

How to Apply

Submission Criteria:

If your first-authored poster has been accepted for the 2019 SPSP program and you meet the other criteria, you may apply for a Student Poster Award by uploading the following documents:

1. A .pdf copy of the poster you intend to present at SPSP 2019.

Competitive posters will include each of the following sections (or sections equivalent to those) below:

Background Information or Introduction

Research Question(s) or Objective(s)

Hypotheses or Potential Outcomes (if the work is exploratory)*

Impact (of project)

Methods or Procedures

Results or Analyses

Conclusions or Discussion

Any in-text citation should be in APA format; a reference list is not required

*Work that is exploratory must be explicitly labeled as such.

Note: If you are selected to present your poster at SPSP as a finalist, you will be allowed to make minor edits to your poster prior to the convention in order to incorporate reviewer feedback. However, you should consider the poster that you submit now to be a final version, ready to be presented at a conference.

2. A 500-word (maximum) summary of the research you will be presenting in .pdf or .doc format.

The research summary should provide an overview of the research and offer information that enhances your poster. This may include more detailed explanations of related literature and how the research question was formed, any secondary analyses and results, or information the presenter might convey in conversations with an audience at their poster presentation

Note: Any submission that exceeds 500 words will be disqualified automatically. In-text citations will count towards the word limit, but a reference list will not.

Judging Criteria and Process:

There will be three rounds of judging. Links to rubrics are posted below for each round.

Round 1: In the first round of judging, submissions are evaluated on criteria that are deemed critical for the successful composition and presentation of an academic poster (e.g., successful use of graphs and figures, clearly organized layout). All submissions will receive Round 1 feedback. Posters that score above the 50th percentile in Round 1 will move onto the second round of judging.

Round 2: In the second round of judging, the reviewers will provide an in-depth evaluation of both poster content and the accompanying research summary. Scores from this round will be used to select 10 poster finalists.

Round 3: In the third round of judging, the 10 final undergraduate student posters (exhibited at SPSP in the Student Poster Award Hall) will be evaluated by “secret judges” (typically faculty members). In addition to the criteria mentioned above, scores in this round will be determined on the basis of how well authors present their posters in person (e.g., their ability to answer questions, guide viewers through the poster, and communicate the important elements of the research presented).

For more information about what to include within each section of your poster and research summary, or for more details about the judging criteria, please reference the public judging rubrics for Round 1, Round 2, and Round 3.

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